Arizona silver belt., 1887-09-03
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A large hotel is to be erected at Tempe.
 The tax levy n Yavapai county has been fixed at $3.25 on the S1O0. "4
 Nogales is to have jail, the cOn- tract for winch has been let to Pat English for Sl425.
 J. J. Devine has resigned his posi- tion as deputy collector of customs at Tucson, and will return to Florence to live.
 The tax levy of Pinal eeunty has been fixed at $2:76 on each $10O valu- ation, lower than that of any other county in the Territory.
 The Crispin mine, adiolnlng the Sil- yer King, is being rapidly developed and hopes are entertained that 1t will equal its famous neighbor.
 Sheriff Mulvenon took with him to Pleasant valley ten warrants of ar ! rest for parties suspected of being inn plicated in the recent killing there.
 The Citizen states that Paul Plum mer, who has been experimenting with grasses, claims to have obtained particular variety (not named) that will grow on the dryestof desert land.
 The Board of Supervisors have de- cided to call in the Yavapai county redemption bonds, amounting to $143,0OO, and which bear interest at 8 per cent, and issue 2 per cent bonds in lieu thereof.-Journal Miner.
 4 great exodus wiu take place shortly, 1t is said, to Alaska from H. linois, Missouri and Texas. The greater portion of the emigration seems to be directed to Jeneau,. while few settlers will go to the Yukon rlver gold diggins.
 Recent gold discoveries Tn the west ern edge of the Superstition mountains are said to be very valuable. One lead, s feet wide, assays from SIP to $39.5O per ton. The Arizonan states that Judge J. D. Reymert has two men at work developing a claim there.
 It IS reported by the Los Angeles Times that Wm. Hasson, representing Indianapolis capitalists left for Arizo- na to locate and purchase 10000 acres of desert land, at $2 per acre, near the Gila river. It is proposed to raise al- falfa, and stock the land with a large herd of cattle.
 The proverbial luck of the Chilson brothers seems not to have forsaken them in California. The Los Angeles Herald reports that they have dis covered a gold mine of fabulous rich ness in the San Jacinto mountains, about ninety miles east of Los Ange- les. The Chilsons claim the tock t6 be worth $70 per ton.
 Another water storage project has taken definite shape in the matter of the construction of an immense res ervoir on Lynx creek, near Prescott for the purposes of grazing, mining and agriculture. Ex-Governor Tritle, the Murphy Brothers and other prom inent parties are at the head of the enterprise.
 Arizona mine holders whose proper tles run low in silver and high in lead are advised to hold on to them for the present at least. There is every pros pect that there will be a great demand ere long for such ore for fuxing pur- poses, and the Grant and Argo smell ters at Denver arc already offering a bonus for it.-Enterprise.
 The Arizonan reports that at special meeting of the Arizona Indus trial Bxposition-Assoeiatfon, an effort to reconsider the invitation extended to Governor Zulick to make the open. ing address at the forthcoming fair, was frustrated by the chairman of the meeting making nasty exit, thus leaving the meeting without . quorum. A correspondent of the Globe-Dem- ocrat says Frank James is attending strictly to his clerkship in Matten- thal's store in Dallas, Texas. City Editor O'Leary, of the Dallas News gives it as his individual opinion, and as the opinion of others, that Mir. James deserves great credit for hls conduct since arriving in Dallas. He said the way the local papers had dumped on him" at first was some thing unusual, and that but few men could have ignored their merciless at- Jacks. But tha man from Missouri had gone steadily along, minding his own business and keeping himself free from everything to provoke crit,